When rescuers first found Atlas, a tiny brown hyena pup, he was so weak and sick that they were afraid he might not survive. Blind, alone, and struggling with pneumonia, the fragile baby needed ...

It took ten years for Wim van den Heever to capture his perfect shot. After noticing paw prints and scat in an abandoned mining town along the coast of southern Namibia, he saw an opportunity to snap ...

The story behind the award-winning photo of an elusive brown hyena bringing new life to the Namib Desert. At night, the long-abandoned diamond mining town of Kolmanskop is almost empty. The tourists ...

The hyena, a creature often misunderstood and criticised in today’s culture, is one of the most intriguing animals in Africa. Known for its distinctive laugh-like call and its role as a scavenger, the ...

Some wild animals are relatively easy to study. Certain penguin populations, for instance, are so unaccustomed to large predators that they barely fear humans and will often wander right up to ...

Namibia's brown hyenas live in small clans but often travel and hunt alone. Thorsten Milse/robertharding/Getty Images Some wild animals are relatively easy to study. Certain penguin populations, for ...

Hairs that likely belonged to humans living 195,000 to 257,000 years ago in Africa have been identified in fossilized brown hyena dung, according to a new study that describes the first non-bony ...